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Sheriff Johnson of Fannon County, TX Reels Under Painful Criticism After His Deputies’ Misconduct Becomes Public

A body cam video released last Wednesday
went viral shedding new light on an incident that happened August 2018. In a
bizarre development, officers from the same department indicted in the video
followed up on their intimidation of the same family again.

Joi Eachus lives with her family at their Fannon County property in Texas. This warped tale of “retributory justice” started on August 9, 2018, when Kenneth Steelman, a Fannin County deputy, responded to an animal disturbance complaint at Eachus’ property.

Explaining the video of that incident, Sheriff Mark Johnson said, “The young lady comes up to the front door and they started talking,” he contends. “You can see in the video they had a different kind of conversation, and things kind of escalated and went south.”

Okay! Going further south of Texas, you are not likely to end up in a happy place; the deputy arrested Eachus and she countered with a request for an assault charge against deputy Steelman.

Screenshot From Body Cam Footage

Sheriff Johnson, being a worldly
man that he is, could see the situation as clear as daylight. He had Texas
Rangers carry an inquiry into the incident who cleared the officer of any
wrongdoing, while charges against Eachus were also dismissed.

“The deputy in question was
placed on administrative leave until the investigation was completed, and
once it was over he was called back to work,” the sheriff said.

I beg to differ! If everyone was righteous then why was there an arrest and an assault charge was thrown out by prosecutors? The ever-astute Sheriff Johnson reasons that they did “some retraining on de-escalation and things” so deputies have a better understanding of their circumstances. Deputy Steelman was also retrained in arrest search and seizure topics.

But this week, the release of the
body cam video from that incident wounded Johnson.

“This video was shared with many, many groups, and it was done for a purpose: Hate groups, law enforcement hate groups,” Johnson said. “We’ve had so many hate emails, so many nasty responses on our sheriff’s office Facebook page that I made the decision to take it down.”

Despite the criticism, he has
vowed to carry on the work of helping and safeguarding people to the best of
their abilities. “We have lots of new training that we put in place to get the
officers better trained, to be better prepared for all situations, and that’s
what I’m excited about,” Johnson exclaimed, not letting the criticism dampen
his spirits.

That could’ve been that. And everyone
would’ve moved on to their next viral video — one that didn’t feature the Fannon
County Police Department. But…

Texas Police came to the Eachus House a day after the story of this brutal arrest was made public — a move that reeks of retaliation.

A Fannin County Texas deputy
showed up at their home, asking questions — a day after the story aired on
Wednesday about Deputy Steelman’s, of the same department, involvement in
brutalizing a woman who asked him to leave since he did not have a warrant to
be on her property.

Stella Eachus, Joi Eachus’ mother, answered the door on Thursday, following the Wednesday story, to find a Fannin County Deputy Hatanville at her door.

Eachus answered the door with a
camera in-hand after several incidents of harassment.

“Can I ask you why?” Eachus asks
deputy Hatanville, standing in her door.

“The plate on the car comes back
as Nagy, so I was just checking to see….”

“We don’t own it,” Eachus
replies.

“OK, alright then. Y’all have a
good night,” the deputy says, as he walks away with his wrist pressed to his
gun.

“Do you have a card?” she asks
with fear in her voice.

“Yes, ma’am, I can grab you one
real quick outta my—”

The Card Deputy Hatanville gave Ms. Eachus

“Would you, please?” Eachus asks.

Deputy Hatanville walks away and
politely returns with a card, this time without his hand on his gun.

“Here you go, ma’am?”

“Is that it?”

“Yes, ma’am,” he tells her
politely as he hands her a card.

“Y’all have a good night.”

He walks away.

Now, the wounded Sheriff is
pained to the core; it seems the world is out to get him and his deputies.
Sheriff Johnson is of the view that not only say independent news media but people
publicly complaining must be part of “hate groups,” when all that happened was
a deputy from the same department arrived a day later to ask questions in an
apparent “tap and rap,” or “knock and talk” intimidation tactic to harass some
woman.

Eachus family says this wasn’t a
one-off incident of intimidation. With two on video, it’s not a leap of faith
to believe them on face value alone.

“They have gone as far as having an officer follow me from my driveway all the way into downtown Bonham and it’s eight miles from my parent’s house,” Joi Eachus told Photography is Not a Crime in an interview.

“And I have had officers park at
the school down the street from my parent’s house and sit in the parking lot
with their car pointing to where they can see directly into my parents’ front
yard and have sat there for an hour or so.”

Police is an important arm of the
state, the greater the need for an organization the higher standard of morality
will be ascribed to them. This is not to hate on law enforcement neither to
condone nor support violence against the police in any way. In fact, their constitutional
role is pivotal and no other agency could fill in for that. That equation does
not allow for the hurt of Sheriff Johnson at being criticized for dropping the ball
on overseeing his deputies’ mis-conduct.

Wouldn’t it be more astute for
him to recognize the problems and share what he needs to reform his department?
We’re out of choices, Sheriff! We need the cops to be the best among us, and
only the best among us should get to be the cops!​​​

How ironic that Sheriff Dark Jokeson fails to recognize that Deputies Satanville and Stopitman are active representatives of the largest and perhaps one of the most powerful hate groups in America. It will always be a struggle to be forced to comply with the self-entitled public servant who is given this imbalance of power (and a GUN?!) Indeed, it seems to me that when they are issued their badge and uniform they also receive a disturbing degree of authority with full permission to bully, extort, lie, steal, assault, and more. So by law enforcement’s own definition, Sheriff Jokeson and Deputies Satanville and Stopitman are hate groupies, working toward a collective goal of dominance and tyranny.

When your civil rights are violated under the color of law, don’t argue with law enforcement personnel. Go straight to the nearest FBI office, and file a (signed) criminal complaint against the deputy and department involved in the incident. Once they have a signed complaint, they MUST investigate. After that, run for Sheriff in your county– if you win, you know what to do next.